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<blockquote data-quote="jgarden" data-source="post: 61079702" data-attributes="member: 22001"><p><strong>For 2010-11, the average life expectancy rate for those residing in Hawaii was 81.5 years, while for those in Mississippi it was 74.8 - a difference of 6.7 years.</strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong>John Lee Pettimore III has argued that when it comes to healthcare, Americans all deserve "to be free to live their life the way they like?" - which in this case means dying before you reach 75 if you live in Mississippi.</strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong>Unless one is prepared to accept the argument that the whole state of Mississippi has a collective "death wish" for choosing to die before reaching 75, then there would appear to be something fundamentally wrong when the citizens in one state outlive the citizens of another state by an average of 6.7 years!</strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong>This is particularily troublesome in a modern nation which many claim has the highest level of medical research and private healthcare in the world.</strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong>Do the good citizens of Mississippi deserve to die 6.7 years before their Hawaii counterparts largely because of where they were born and/or their inability to access the kind of private healthcare that would extend their lives?</strong></p><p></p><p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_life_expectancy" target="_blank">List of U.S. states by life expectancy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jgarden, post: 61079702, member: 22001"] [b]For 2010-11, the average life expectancy rate for those residing in Hawaii was 81.5 years, while for those in Mississippi it was 74.8 - a difference of 6.7 years. John Lee Pettimore III has argued that when it comes to healthcare, Americans all deserve "to be free to live their life the way they like?" - which in this case means dying before you reach 75 if you live in Mississippi. Unless one is prepared to accept the argument that the whole state of Mississippi has a collective "death wish" for choosing to die before reaching 75, then there would appear to be something fundamentally wrong when the citizens in one state outlive the citizens of another state by an average of 6.7 years! This is particularily troublesome in a modern nation which many claim has the highest level of medical research and private healthcare in the world. Do the good citizens of Mississippi deserve to die 6.7 years before their Hawaii counterparts largely because of where they were born and/or their inability to access the kind of private healthcare that would extend their lives?[/b] [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_life_expectancy]List of U.S. states by life expectancy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/url] [/QUOTE]
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